balthazar
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Wait- I thought some bought manuals because they LIKED them?? ? Chances certainly are that those 6/4/2 units are long gone. I know of a really clean '70 Catalina Safari 3-spd, saw it at a car show a couple years ago, then again this month- it had been smacked into by a drunk. No bigger deal than a floor-mounted manual; you're doing the same thing in the same position... It was not only standard, it was the standard. Didn't find Olds' info, but the 3-spd was standard on the '71 LeSabre, LeSabre Custom & Centurion.
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3-spd was actually standard in ALL ‘71 full-size Pontiacs in the beginning of the MY. Numbers built: Catalina : 144 Catalina Brougham : 6 Bonneville : 4 Grand Ville : 2 Grand Prix had 116 manual trans cars, tho those were likely 99% 4-spds.
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Don’t remember if I put a pic of this guy up here. Found him stuck in a bucket, kept him around for 8-9 days while he worked on flight (and grew). Fed him, then weened him off to finding/feeding himself. Near the end, I could call him and he’d bop 30 feet across the ground to me to eat a worm I found. He’d fly to your arm and all. A neat experience.
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Alternative Fuels & Propulsion RANDOM
balthazar replied to G. David Felt's topic in Electric Vehicles and Alternative Fuels
That guarantees you have at least a quarter ounce of taste. ? Tesla 'truck' is miles below an Aztek or Axiom in the beauty department. -
^ Screams at inside of closet door, emerges smiling (with just a subtle tic at one eye). We've all been there. There's always High Art for solace :
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Porsche Panamera :
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Daimler really raped Chrysler over. Eagle tho: just rebadges.
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I miss Plymouth quite a lot. '57-58 may have been their peak, stylistically- the Division punched way above their price class with that generation. And this one doesn't even have the optional bumper wings.
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Olds would compete against Chevy... and Dodge, and Plymouth, and Buick, and Ford, and Mercury, and AMC, etc.
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Bigger bore, longer stroke, bigger crank, taller deck are the main in-concert ingredients forcing a big block. Pontiac had slightly bore differences, and 2 main journal sizes but the same deck heights, all in one block ‘size’.
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Nope: Olds also did the big/small block thing. In the ‘60s the 330 and 425 were totally different.
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60-80% of just about everyone's sales are CUVs / SUVs. But since the vast majority of SUVs are 4WD, are german ones 'fun' and American ones 'not fun' even tho they have the same number of drive wheels? Does anyone who buys a mobile consumer appliance (CUV) drive them in any way aggressively? What percent of drivers? I watched a Porsche 911-esque car today, turn right onto the highway at a red light. Road ahead was empty... and it just leisurely oozed forward like a kia forte on a donut spare. I thought 'Idiot."
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Mr Felt- question. What's the purpose of the vertical 4x6s? I see you have D-rings on them. Curious, because they're obviously not for structural reasons.
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Went to the junkyard this morning. Small yard, they used to keep a small section of really old (60s) stuff off to the side, but I was disheartened to see it all gone and a crusher in the rear of the yard. Oh well, almost nothing left of the oldies there anyway. Had a '60 Olds coupe, was going to scour it for some hardware for my B-59. This was the oldest thing I saw there; '76 Laguna by the writing on the C-Pillar :
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^ Should last as long as any other general turbo'd vehicle. Again I point to the random guy who promised me my turbo would "explode" at 75K miles; I just turned 199K yesterday.
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Used to see saabs in the ‘90s and into the ‘00s, but they all-llll gone now.
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Porsche is German and it's 67% SUVs (by volume). Are they using the German strategy, or the American?
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It's not been 'upkept' as much as it's been restored. Wheel & shifter definitely aren't factory, but they blend in perfectly well. Also looks like 18s on all 4 corners. Bet it has way more than 350 or 375 HP gross now.
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Like mercedes vehicles in general, there are many many better choices for more power, greater reliability and less inflated cost. AMG motors are money pits.
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^ I believe that's a Dethtrapp 2000.
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I question that : the build quality & engineering is awful. VERY cheaply built.
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Lamoille Iowa 1939 :
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Here’s my trusty ‘64 Sprunger drill press, made in Topeka IN. Works great, use it all the time. Switch went bad so it got a new switch, new grounded cord, and cleaned up/waxed the vertical post & table. Maybe I’ll restore it when I no longer need to put holes in things.
